The Voisin III is a French pusher biplane built by the Voisin brothers before the First World War and ordered in quantity by the French army as a reconnaissance and light bombing aircraft. A Voisin III crew is credited with the first confirmed aerial combat victory of the war, in October 1914, using a machine gun mounted ahead of the observer to bring down a German aircraft.
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The Voisin III was a French World War I two-seat pusher biplane multi-purpose aircraft developed by Voisin in 1914 as a more powerful version of the 1912 Voisin L.
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